Success in the 90's

Change

Change is playing a major part in the future of perinatal nursing. Our specialty has experienced monumental changes and nurses now face new challenges daily. Along with those changes comes a future bursting with possibilities.

Paulina G. (Polly) Perez, R.N. is a well known perinatal nurse, author, and lecturer. She speaks as a nurse to nurses. Throughout her thirty year nursing career she has been a leader in perinatal care. Her dynamic and energetic speaking style enable audiences to understand complicated topics that will enable them to meet the challenges facing perinatal nurses today.

With the advent of managed care there is an increased emphasis on outcomes management and disease prevention. Preventative medicine and healing arts modalities are becoming cornerstones of practice. Ms. Perez is experienced in helping perinatal nurses adapt to the changes in health care, identify new nursing roles, learn new modalities, and implement new strategies.

Ms. Perez is familiar with non-traditional nursing roles as she has been in private practice in Houston, TX for 16 years. Her entrepreneurial role has been an inspiration for many nurses.

Changing Times, Changing Roles

In this one day seminar Ms. Perez will deal with the changes facing perinatal health professionals today. Since change is a major force today, the seminar will focus on anticipating changes, creative risk taking and how perinatal professionals can provide an environment of health for themselves as well as for their patients.

Perinatal Healthcare of the Future
Changing Times, Changing Roles

The Reality of Change
Creative Risk Taking
Healing and Empowerment
Creating a New Paradigm & Developing New Traditions
Making These Changes Work for You: Stress Relief Tips for Busy People

Actions the Empower

This one day seminar is designed to help the practicing nurse integrate new information into her clinical practice. As we move forward toward a new century, we must adapt our practices to include new concepts and new methods of meeting patients' needs. Preventative health care has become a priority to hospitals, nurses, physicians and insurance companies. Ms. Perez will provide comprehensive information on integrating traditional care with alternative approaches and healing arts modalities. The emphasis will be on actions that empower both the patient and the nurse.

Actions that Empower
Combining Strategies

Through the Looking Glass: Gatekeepers to the Future of Birth
Healing Arts Modalities for Use with Maternity Patients
Epidural Anesthesia: An Update on Current Research
New Techniques for Supporting the Patient in Labor

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Polly Perez
Last Updated: June 2003